Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 9
“What!” said he, “do you mean to tell me that there is any animal in this country stronger and more powerful than I am?
Who acts: you · What happens: say, mean, tell, be · To what, where: animal, me, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mean | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 is | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | advcl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 animal | det |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obl |
| 23 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 powerful | cc |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 powerful | advmod |
| 26 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stronger | conj |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 am | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 am | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 powerful | advcl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | What nsubj:outer; Lion nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | any animal | me | this country | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient animal=Topic | ||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | you not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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